What it Means to Be on the Front Lines John Stonestreet and Kasey Leander via Christian Headlines
A feature of life today is how quickly culture changes. That can leave many Christians, even those with a strong personal faith, struggling to make the connections between what is true, real, and good and how to think about all the issues that seem to barrage us. What Christians need is a strong public faith, one that provides clarity and meaning.
The Colson Center equips Christians to see that though Christian faith is personal, it is not private. It is the implications of the faith, built on Christ and committed to what is true, that shapes a public witness able to think critically about culture, draw from the entire story of Scripture, and communicate wisely with others. In short, we want every Christian to be able to live like one in this time and place where God has called us.
To be clear, we do not think of ourselves as being on the “front lines.” Every follower of Christ is on the front lines when they take their faith into every walk of life, as “salt and light” to a world that desperately needs the redemptive power of the Gospel.
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For example, Abby Foltz, a cardiac nurse from Colorado Springs, Colorado, is on the front lines. In addition to igniting her passion for caring for people in moments of crisis, the Christian story of reality helps Abby make sense of the big why questions raised in the practice of medicine:
I really enjoyed just being in those really high-intensity moments with people like that. [It] opens up the door for lots of conversations … “What’s the point of all this? What’s the meaning?”
Those end-of-life conversations we’re having with patients and different coworkers that I have, starting to talk about worldview, what people think what happens when we die, all those kinds of questions.
